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However, as fans of the soap know, she was given a very permanent exit when Ronnie and her sister Roxy met a watery end on New Year's Day in 2017.

The emotional episode started with joy as it appeared Ronnie was finally about to get her happy ending as she prepared to tie the knot to Jack Branning – but it didn’t take long before the big day took a turn for the worse.

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After a drunk Roxy decided to take a swim, she soon found herself in trouble.

Ronnie jumped into the pool to save her but the dress weighed her down and the pair met their untimely deaths by drowning together.

Samantha played Ronnie for a decade and was involved in some of the most intense storylines in the soap.

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Speaking to OK! Magazine, she said: “I hate the idea that I can’t go back – unless I come back as some weird Australian twin sister!

“I understand they have to regenerate and constantly recast, but my complaint was when you have two characters who are embedded within the fabric of that community, by killing them completely you’re removing them from any future producer.